{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Insanely Great Podcast","title":"Grill, Chill & Gemini","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/61cc8f19\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3302,"description":"Insanely Great Podcast — Memorial Day Edition 🍔 \nEpisode recorded: May 24, 2026\nShow Notes\nFire up the grill, crack open a cold one, and let Christopher and DJ keep you company while you flip burgers. This Memorial Day edition is a buffet of tech takes, hot rants, and pop culture detours — perfect for that backyard hang.\nOn the menu this week:\n🤖 Google I/O lays the smackdown. Gemini 3.5 Flash now allegedly outguns 3.1 Pro at half the power, Gemini Spark is the big consumer cloud play, and we got a sneak peek at what Siri could be if Apple ever caught up. Spoiler: Apple is paying billions for a whitelisted, watered-down Gemini and the guys aren't sure why.\n👓 The smart glasses arms race. Meta's Ray-Bans, Oakleys, Apple's incoming pair, and now Google's at the party too. DJ returned his Oakleys (vertical video — really, Meta?) and Christopher's Ray-Bans live on the shelf 90% of the time. Four-hour battery life is, in technical terms, \"abysmal.\"\n🏗️ Android 17 \"Cinnamon Bun\" gets deeper Gemini integration. In other shocking news, water is wet.\n🛠️ Google Antigravity and the slow death of the IDE — just tell the AI what to code and walk away.\n🍌 Nano Banana 2 keeps being magical, and Christopher demands to know how these models change one thing without nuking the whole image.\n🚀 SpaceX files for what could be the biggest IPO in history (ticker: SPCX). Also, hey, at least the toilet didn't explode this time.\n💸 NVIDIA prints money ($91B quarter, $80B buyback) while we debate whether Anthropic could ever catch the shovel-seller.\n🏢 Meta's layoffs hit 8,000 while employees literally train their AI replacements via keystroke surveillance. Salesforce pulled the same gaslight. Yikes.\n🧠 The AGI debate gets philosophical. Are LLMs the steam engine of intelligence? Plus a fascinating tangent on world models, three-system AI learning, and why power-hungry \"evolutionary\" AI might actually get us there.\n🎬 Mandalorian & Grogu is a two-and-a-half-hour nothing burger. Sigourney Weaver:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2bd-B6IhLKQpZJme_YE2tCybjjoR2sTeTMQ8o-Ye9uE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MDhl/MzQ1MTg1NzA0MDk5/M2E0YmRiODc2MmJi/OGNhZS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}